#  Leah Platt Boustan 

PhD in Economics, 2006.

Professor of Economics, Princeton University.

 

 

 



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*Winner of the IZA Young Labor Economist Award, 2019.*

 *Best Adviser Award, Graduate Economics Club, Princeton University, 2018.*

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Leah Platt Boustan is the author of [Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets](http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10875.html), Princeton University Press (2017). *Winner of the Allan Sharlin Memorial Book Award for Outstanding Book in Social Science History, Social Science History Association, 2018.*

 *Winner of Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize for Outstanding Book in North American Economic History, Economic History Association, 2018.*

 Leah Platt Boustan '06, Carola Frydman '06, and Robert A. Margo are the editors of [Human Capital in History: The American Record](http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo18411047.html), University of Chicago Press, 2014.

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*Awarded Strauss Fellowship, Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice, NYU School of Law, 2013.* *Wiinner of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, awarded to "126 early-career scholars \[who\] represent the most promising scientific researchers working today," 2012.*

 *Winner of the Economic History Association’s Alan Nevins Prize for best dissertation in US economic history, 2006.*



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Alumni department
    
     [Economics](/alumni-department/economics)
- ## Alumni year
    
     [2006](/alumni-year/2006)
- ## Roles
    
     [PhD Alumni](/alumni)